From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: MkIV italic correction?
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:15:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A166D44.9020406@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090521133631.GA21845@Fity>
Corsair wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Corsair wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:55:45AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>> open type fonts have no italic correction info (except in math)
>>> But I notice that using the same fonts in XeTeX produces italic
>>> correction. Is it fake?
>> I guess it is using the glyph boundingbox.
>
> Thank you. This sounds reasonable. Is there any way I can achieve
> this in MkIV? I'm currently using \def\/{\kern0.1em}, which is kinda
> dirty...
Hans could implement something like this easily, but whether it does
much good is doubtful (that square box does not actually tell you where
something sticks out, just that it does).
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-22 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 6:25 Corsair
2009-05-20 7:21 ` Yue Wang
2009-05-20 7:37 ` Corsair
2009-05-21 9:55 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-21 11:55 ` Corsair
2009-05-21 11:59 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-21 13:36 ` Corsair
2009-05-22 9:15 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2009-05-21 13:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-05-22 9:25 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-22 10:48 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-22 11:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-22 12:44 ` French typography is back Robert-André Mauchin
2009-05-22 15:51 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-05-22 16:38 ` Robert-André Mauchin
2009-05-22 22:58 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-05-22 16:40 ` luigi scarso
2009-05-22 17:06 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-27 4:34 ` MkIV italic correction? Dohyun Kim
2009-05-27 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-01 15:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-06-01 20:19 ` Hans Hagen
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